Spent last friday on the water after southern and cownose rays. It was a perfect weather day.
Met up with Capt. Marc around 10:30 and set off for an afternoon of bowfishing.It started out a little slow, but soon started to see some southerns I've bowfished for cownose before but never even seen a southern ray. They are tough and much stronger than the cownose.After a couple misses and a hit,but having the arrow pulled out, I got this one in the boat.
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Nice! :thumbsup:
They put up a real fight. After a while got a shot at another one. He didn't fit in the barrel.
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Later in the day we started to get into cownose so the shooting was fast and furious.
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Sorry for the bloody pictures. By the end of the day we ended up with 4 southern and 7 cownose rays. Also 1 broken arrow, ripped my rest off, and a reel that's going to need some work done to it. They are tough on equipment. I have another 2 day trip in two weeks for just cownose so have time to fix things.
Looks like a great day! Nice rays!
Where is the guide based out of?
Congrats :thumbsup:
Awesome! I'd like to give that a try one of these days.
Ooh, I want to bowfish for rays!
That looks like a blast!
Congrats,
Bisch
Lots of fun there. I'd like to try it someday. Growing up we use to do it with a large frog gig on a long pole in shallow clear water from the bow of a small skiff. Just put it in idle and look for em. Wings taste great.
:bigsmyl:
Lucas,
He is from here in Pa. Marc Spagnola
Dust to Dawn Bowfishing
Congrats on some great shooting. I toss the reel when shooting rays. And use a chlorine gallon jug with about 20' of line tied to the arrow. You can shoot more then 1 if you have the chance and then round them up
looks like a blast! congrats on a great adventure.
some good fun! you pretty much centered that 1st one.
I used Capt. Danny Allen from Cedar Key Outfitters (FL) last year and plan to again this year.
Vi :bigsmyl:
Looks like a great time. I hear they are good eating!